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College Athletes Take Labor Cause to Capitol Hill

WASHINGTON ― Members of a group seeking to unionize college athletes are looking for allies on Capitol Hill as they brace for an appeal of a ruling that said full scholarship athletes at Northwestern University are employees who have the right to form a union.

Faculty & Staff

Buffett Gives Alma Mater’s Chancellor Twitter Advice

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Chancellor Harvey Perlman is turning to billionaire Warren Buffett for advice on Twitter even though the investor has only sent five tweets.

NY Student Accepted at All 8 Ivy League Schools

A 17-year-old Long Island student has applied to and was accepted at all eight Ivy League schools.

If Student Athletes Are Allowed to Unionize, Will It Change How Colleges View All Their Students?

With the NCAA making a profit of more than one billion dollars a year, I’ve got nothing against the unionization of student-athletes.

Here’s Some Underpublicized March Madness

Too little attention is focused on issues of player safety and health in the media storm following the ruling to allow Northwestern University’s student-athletes to organize.

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University of Kansas Chancellor Upholds Rejection of Student Fee

University of Kansas students will not have to pay a $25-per-semester fee for athletics, but they will have to pay two other new fees in the fall, Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little said.

Union Ruling Comes at Bad Time for NCAA

They’re battling in courtrooms, and could one day meet over a bargaining table. About the only things the two sides in the debate over big-time college athletics agree on is that things are changing.

M. Grace Calhoun Named Penn Athletic Director

Penn provost Vincent Price, who chaired the search committee, on Monday called Calhoun “a national leader in intercollegiate athletics.”

Univ. of Baltimore Paying Students to Graduate on Time

Under a new program, Finish4Free, the first of its kind in the country, the University of Baltimore will pay for incoming freshmen’s final semester tuition.

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Morgan State Constructing New School of Business in Honor of Earl Graves

Morgan State University is constructing an $80 million facility that will house the School of Business and Management, which was named in 2005 after Black Enterprise magazine founder Earl G. Graves Sr.

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Harvard’s NCAA Dreams Belie Less Than Stellar Reality on Campus

You may not like Harvard because it busted your bracket going for the fake Buffet Billions. Even non-math types knew there was a statistical joke going on with Buffet having the edge. You hit a 1 in 9.2 quintillion shot and Buffet only pays you a billion? Sucker. It makes the lottery seem reasonable. And […]

Jackson State May Pursue Legal Action Against Grambling, SWAC

Jackson State is exploring legal action against Grambling State and perhaps the Southwestern Athletic Conference to recover as much as $600,000 lost when Grambling’s football team refused to travel to Jackson State’s homecoming game.

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